Good ideas inspire those around you to start growing on their own.
Good ideas Stimulate the people around you and start growing on your own.
- Metaphor for [vegetative growth
- Pulling does not grow, create an environment and wait.
- ↔ promotion
Stimulate the people around you
- kindle a fire in one's heart

Related Historical Words
- [Emile Souvestre](/en/Emile%20Souvestre) (preceded by Hugo) "There is something stronger than strength, courage, or talent. It is "[an idea whose time has come](/en/an%20idea%20whose%20time%20has%20come)."
- 1848 "Revue des Deux Mondes". The source of the later proverb "Time has come".
- [Victor Hugo](/en/Victor%20Hugo) "You can resist an invading army, but you cannot resist [an invading idea](/en/an%20invading%20idea)."
- In 1877, in "A History of Certain Crimes," in his criticism of the coup d'etat, he stated.
- [Autonomous diffusivity](/en/Autonomous%20diffusivity)
- Hugo/Souvestre pointed out the unstoppable invasiveness of ideas in the "military power < ideas" diagram.
- [Karl Marx](/en/Karl%20Marx) "The moment theory captures the masses, it turns into material force."
- Draft of "German Ideology," 1845-46. Emphasizes the shift from ideology to action.
- [mass mobilization](/en/mass%20mobilization).
- Marx theorized that ideas change reality by "[gripping](/en/gripping) the masses.
- J. M. [Keynes](/en/Keynes) "The ideas of economists and philosophers - right or wrong - are more powerful than they seem. In fact, the world runs almost entirely on them."
- Preface to The General Theory, 1936. Ideas as the "invisible hand" that drives policy making.
- Impact on Institutional Formation
- Keynes asserted that "ideas move the world," and he extends his scope to policy and economic practice.
- [G. B. Shaw](/en/G.%20B.%20Shaw) "If you swap apples, you get one apple, but if you swap ideas, you get two."
- Remarks attributed to a speech given in the early 1900s. Suggested a multiplier effect of sharing.
- Multiplier effect of sharing
- The show is a metaphor for the doubling of value through "exchange" and shows how collaboration fosters ideas.
- [Richard Dawkins](/en/Richard%20Dawkins) ""[meme](/en/meme)" is a new replicator that evolves by self-replicating culture through imitation."
- 1976, The Selfish Gene. A Self-Propagating Model of Ideas.
- evolutionary perspective
- In his meme theory, Dawkins proposed the "self-growth" process of imitation, mutation, and selection as a scientific metaphor.
These are all discourses that capture the phenomenon of "good ideas stimulating their surroundings and developing in a self-perpetuating manner," transcending differences in time and position.
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